Biography

Magee, Stephen P.
James L. Bayless/Enstar Corporation Chair in Business Administration,
Department of Finance
Stephen Magee received his B.A. and M.A. from Texas Tech University
and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research interests include the optimal number of lawyers for the
U.S. economy, biological models of human economic behavior, and the
theory of endogenous protection. His teaching interests include
managerial microeconomics, international finance, and leadership.

Publications

Stephen P. Magee and Changkyu Choi. 2016. The Negative Effects of Redistributive Activity on Country Current Accounts and Government Budget Deficits: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence, in 18th EBES Conference, Jan. 8-10, Dubai, U.A.E.: American University of Sharjah School of Business and Management.

Stephen P. Magee. 2013. Lawyers as Spam: Congressional Capture Explains Why U.S. Lawyers Exceed the Optimum and Their Cost, in An American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law, Frank Buckley, ed. Yale University Press, 100-117.

Christopher S. P. Magee and Stephen P. Magee. 2008. The United States is a Small Country in World Trade. Review of International Economics 16, 990-1004.

Changkyu Choi and Stephen P. Magee. 2000. Legal Predation, the Trade Balance and the Current Account in a Dynamic Open Economy: Theory and Evidence, in Electronic Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Chicago, John Bilson and Stephan Schoess, eds.

Stephen P. Magee. 2000. Technology and Capital Market Theory: Evidence for Aliber's Theory of Direct Foreign Investment, in Electronic Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Chicago, John Bilson and Stephan Schoess, eds.

Stephen P. Magee. 1993. The Political Economy of Trade Policy: A Survey, in Surveys in International Trade, David Greenaway and Alan Winters, eds. 139-176.

Stephen P. Magee. 1992. Roundtable on U.S. Risk Capital and Innovation, With a Look at Western Europe. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 4, 48-78.

Stephen P. Magee. 1992. The Effect of Income and Prices on Protection and Rent Seeking in the U.S. in Aggregation, Consumption and Trade: Essays in Honor of H.S. Houthakker, Louis Philips and Lester D. Taylor, eds. Netherlands: Kluwer.

Stephen P. Magee. 1992. The Optimum Number of Lawyers: A Reply to Epp. Law and Social Inquiry 17, 667-693.

Stephen P. Magee. 1990. The Decade Effect: The Stock Market Malaise of the 1990s, in The Japanese Business Study Program: Trade, Foreign Investment and Competition, Hirofumi Matsuo, ed. Austin, TX: University of Texas.

Stephen P. Magee. 1989. The Competence Theory of Comparative Advantage, in The Internationalization of U.S. Markets, David B. Audretsch and Michael P. Claudon, eds. New York, NY: New York University Press.

Stephen P. Magee. 1988. A Review of Robert Baldwin's the Political Economy of U.S. Import Policy. Journal of Economic Literature 26, 1206-1207.

Kofi Amoateng and Stephen P. Magee. 1988. Third World Debt and Endogenous Taxation. Journal of Economics and International Relations 2, 277-286.

Stephen P. Magee and William A. Brock. 1986. Third World Debt and International Capital Market Failure as a Consequence of Redistributive Political Risk Sharing, in World Debt Crisis, Michael Claudon, ed. New York, NY: Ballinger.

William A. Brock and Stephen P. Magee. 1984. Endogenous Tariff Theory: A Survey, in Neoclassical Political Economy: The Economics of Rent Seeking and DUP Activities, David Colander, ed. New York, NY: Ballinger.

William A. Brock and Stephen P. Magee. 1984. The Invisible Foot and the Waste of Nations, in Neoclassical Political Economy: The Economics of Rent Seeking and DUP Activities, David Colander, ed. New York, NY: Ballinger.

Stephen P. Magee and William A. Brock. 1983. A Model of Politics, Tariffs and Rent Seeking in General Equilibrium, in The Problems of Developed Countries and the International Economy, Burton Weisbrod and Helen Hughes, eds. London: Macmillan.

Stephen P. Magee. 1980. 'Comment' on John Parker's 'Pharmaceuticals and Third World Concerns', in The International Supply of Medicines, Robert B. Helms, ed. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute.